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Machine learning (ML) force fields have emerged as a powerful tool for computing materials properties at finite temperatures, particularly in regimes where traditional phonon-based perturbation theories fail or cannot be extended beyond the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-30 Martin Callsen , Tai-Ting Lee , Mei-Yin Chou

We analyze a force-based quasicontinuum approximation to a one-dimensional system of atoms that interact by a classical atomistic potential. This force-based quasicontinuum approximation is derived as the modification of an energy-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-07-19 Matthew Dobson , Mitchell Luskin

We introduce and explore an approach for constructing force fields for small molecules, which combines intuitive low body order empirical force field terms with the concepts of data driven statistical fits of recent machine learned…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Alice Allen , Gábor Csányi , Geneviève Dusson , Christoph Ortner

Ligand coated nanoparticles are complex objects consisting of a metallic or semiconductor core with organic ligands grafted on their surface. These organic ligands provide stability to a nanoparticle suspension. In solutions, the effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-01 Dinesh Chintha , Shivanand Kumar Veesam , Emanuele Boattini , Laura Filion , Sudeep N Punnathanam

We propose a new scheme to parameterize effective potentials that can be used to simulate atomic systems such as oxide glasses. As input data for the optimization, we use the radial distribution functions of the liquid and the vibrational…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-13 Siddharth Sundararaman , Liping Huang , Simona Ispas , Walter Kob

The strengths of glasses are intricately linked to their atomic-level heterogeneity. Atomistic simulations are frequently used to investigate the statistical physics of this relationship, compensating for the limited spatiotemporal…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-13 Pengjie Shi , Zhiping Xu

The dynamics of anisotropic particles are dictated by forces and torques that can be challenging to mathematically represent in computer simulations. Several data-driven approaches have been developed to approximate these interactions, but…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-19 Mohammadreza Fakhraei , Michaela Bush , Chris A. Kieslich , Michael P. Howard

The origin of friction force is a very old problem in physics, which goes back to Leonardo da Vinci or even older times. Extremely important from a practical point of view, but with no satisfactory explanation yet. Many models have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Maria Luján Iglesias , Sebastián Gonçalves

Over the past decade inter-atomic potentials based on machine-learning (ML) techniques have become an indispensable tool in the atomic-scale modeling of materials. Trained on energies and forces obtained from electronic-structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-15 Michele Ceriotti

Amorphous silica ($a-SiO_2$) is a widely used inorganic material. Interestingly, the relationship between the local atomic structures of $a-SiO_2$ and their effects on ductility and fracture is seldom explored. Here, we combine large-scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-17 Jiahao Liu , Jingjie Yeo

We study the effective forces acting between colloidal particles trapped at a fluid interface which itself is exposed to a pressure field. To this end we apply what we call the ``force approach'', which relies solely on the condition of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-03-31 Alvaro Dominguez , Martin Oettel , Siegfried Dietrich

Modern machine learning force fields (ML-FF) are able to yield energy and force predictions at the accuracy of high-level $ab~initio$ methods, but at a much lower computational cost. On the other hand, classical molecular mechanics force…

In studying solidification process by simulations on the atomic scale, the modeling of crystal nucleation or amorphisation requires the construction of interatomic interactions that are able to reproduce the properties of both the solid and…

Accurate simulations of molecules require high-level electronic-structure theory in combination with rigorous methods for approximating the quantum dynamics. Machine-learning approaches can significantly reduce the computational expense of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Valerii Andreichev , Jindra Dušek , Markus Meuwly , Jeremy O. Richardson

Foundation machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are trained on overlapping chemical spaces, yet their latent representations remain model-specific. Here, we show that independently developed MLIPs exhibit statistically consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-08 Zhenzhu Li , Aron Walsh

Future linear colliders designs, ILC and CLIC, are expected to be powerful machines for the discovery of Physics Beyond the Standard Model and subsequent precision studies. However, due to the intense beams (high luminosity, high energy),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-17 Stefano Porto , Anthony Hartin , Gudrid Moortgat-Pick

The structure of surfaces and interfaces of silica (SiO2) is investigated by large scale molecular dynamics computer simulations. In the case of a free silica surface, the results of a classical molecular dynamics simulation are compared to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Juergen Horbach , Torsten Stuehn , Claus Mischler , Walter Kob , Kurt Binder

We discuss a computationally efficient classical many-body potential designed to model the Al-Al interaction in a wide range of bonding geometries. We show that the potential yields results in properties in excellent agreement with…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Hansen , P. Vogl , V. Fiorentini

This paper addresses the problem of consistent energy-based coupling of atomistic and continuum models of materials, limited to zero-temperature statics of simple crystals. It has been widely recognized that the most practical coupled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Alexander V. Shapeev

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) can now reproduce the energy, forces and stresses of bulk materials with high accuracy compared to first-principles calculations. The description of imperfections, where coordination…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-06 Xinwei Wang , Irea Mosquera-Lois , Aron Walsh